The Snare Horse Racing System – Final Review
The snare dutching system was written by Terry Sparkes and is sold via Sports World Publishing. The system itself involves backing up to five horses in up to four races each day which meet the many criteria’s required.
The sales page makes all the normal claims of a high percentage of winning bets at big prices but in my opinion these results are simply the best case scenario and would not have been achieved by everyone. More on this later though…
The system itself in my opinion is poorly written and contains many grey areas that should have been rectified before being sold.
When you purchase the system you also get access to Terry’s secret webpage where he posts the initial qualifying races each Morning. Terry admits himself there are grey areas and there is a page with many amendments within.
One of these involves the Racing Post forecasts which can differ between the paper copy and the online version. You are not told which version to use and on one day during testing I got a different result to that of Terry as I was using the online version and Terry was using the paper version.
Another grey area concerns the going. You are told not to bet when the ground is classed as Heavy but it is not mentioned when to check this however. I was led to believe that the initial races can be found the night before but Terry informs me that he checks for going changes in the Morning and his results are based on this. He has also added an amendment on his webpage saying you can’t bet when it’s purely heavy but you can bet when it’s Heavy and soft in places or soft and heavy in places. Confused? Well so was I.
The biggest grey area with this system concerns the prices as I mentioned earlier. There is a rule that all horses must be backed at odds of 4 or above on Betfair. There is no set time to check the betting though which means different users will be backing at different odds and making different profit or losses. It also means that some people will find races that others don’t find.
There are several review sites covering the Snare system at present and it appears that Terry has been under the cosh regarding this. He is not happy that different results are being published but to be honest it’s a problem he has brought on himself.
As I mentioned earlier the results claimed by Terry himself are very good. The odds of winning selections are very high though and way above the Betfair SP on many occasions.
I asked Terry to provide me with screenshots of his Betfair account showing the bets placed at the odds shown but he said he couldn’t. He did provide me with one single example which he copied and pasted from his Betfair statement showing that he got odds of 24 on a horse called Natoumba which had an SP of only 15. I don’t doubt this is genuine but one example is not enough proof in my eyes. He did say he could provide me with further proof but he would rather me do the work myself, pull the other one!.
Just because Terry may have backed Natoumba at odds of 24 doesn’t mean anyone else may have got those odds. This seems the case with many of the past results and in my opinion the results page is based on the best case scenario as I mentioned earlier.
During my actual testing of the system the prices quoted by Terry were much more achievable. Was this due to the fact that he had multiple reviewers on his back? I will let you decide that one…
During my short test there 3/9 profitable races and a loss of £358.13 was shown after placing £100 on each race as advised and deducting 5% commission from the net winnings.
After several heated email’s between Terry and myself I decided to stop wasting my time with this one altogether very quickly.
Although my live testing was too short to make a firm assessment of the systems actual profitability I simply can’t recommend a system that has so many grey areas and no proof of past results.
At the end of the day if this were my own system I would have produced all the evidence required to back my claims up.
Rating: 2/5 – The system may have some merit but in my opinion it is not reliable enough to use in the long-run and is one to avoid.
